Mills v. Angel

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice GRANT.

David and Brenda Mills and their daughters, Lauren and Jessica Mills, appeal an instructed verdict granted in favor of Bayshore Medical Center, Inc. and Pasadena Bayshore Hospital, Inc. 1 (Hospital), in their direct corporate liability suit against the Hospital.

The key issue before us on appeal is the appropriate standard of care a hospital owes its patients in its administrative role of overseeing the practice of physicians who have staff privileges to practice in the hospital.

The Millses contend the trial court erred in granting a directed verdict in favor of…